Welcome to the brand new brief kind formatted podcast that enhances my longer 30 minute one after the other Karma Koala podcast conversations.
Koalas get drained rapidly and wish a break so I took my cue from them and created this new 5-minute format the place a present subject is rapidly lined by a number one hashish trade legal professional or skilled.
In our sixth mini-bite I converse with Hemp & Hashish Lawyer, Rod Kight (first in a sequence of 5 mini-bites)
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I’ve been an advocate for hashish reform all through my grownup life and personally skilled its useful results whereas present process chemotherapy remedies for testicular most cancers. I’ve been in remission for years. You possibly can examine my hashish regulation journey from. I’m lucky to supply authorized providers to corporations within the hashish trade, together with hemp, CBD, THC, new and rising cannabinoids, and medical and grownup marijuana use.
For practically 25 years I’ve represented hundreds of companies and people in authorized issues. Throughout this time, I supplied authorized steering to shoppers masking a variety of enterprise points, together with entity formation, contract drafting and negotiation, shareholder disputes, joint ventures, mergers, tax issues, mental property safety, industrial litigation, appeals, asset gross sales, chapter, and dissolution.
Rod's skilled biography
Rod is a industrial hashish regulation legal professional. Primarily based in North Carolina and Mexico, Rod represents hashish authorized companies around the globe and is editor and lead author for the Kight On Hashish authorized weblog. Rod is the creator of “Hashish Enterprise Legislation – What You Have to Know”, printed by Aspatore Books. He served on the advisory board for the American Journal of Endocannabinoid Medication, for which he additionally wrote a authorized column. Rod additionally created the “Supply Rule”, which is extensively considered a major authorized basis for the up to date hemp market in cannabinoids and different hashish supplies.
Rod is steadily quoted on hashish points by enterprise publications and main media shops together with the Wall Road Journal, Time, Washington Put up, Politico and Enterprise Insider. Salon.com printed an opinion piece that Rod wrote about hemp. Moreover, Rod has been listed on MG Journal's checklist of “30 Highly effective Litigators”, Hemp Connoisseur Journal's checklist of “100 Individuals You Ought to Know”, and Excessive Time's “2020 Leaders in Hashish Legislation”. He served on the authorized groups in two high-profile instances towards the DEA and the Texas Division of Well being Providers relating to hemp extracts, wrote and launched hashish laws to a overseas head of state, is a member of the board of administrators. of a publicly traded Canadian hashish and psychedelic firm, has testified to the FDA on CBD and hashish compounds, and is a associate in a Mexican import-export firm centered on authorized cross-border hemp transactions. Rod recurrently advises in-house counsel and C-suite executives on hashish issues. He has mentioned the authorized problems with hashish in quite a few seminars to attorneys, enterprise leaders and public officers and is recurrently requested to be a visitor speaker on American and worldwide podcasts about hashish and psychedelics.
Rod is a powerful believer in hashish for private and medical use after efficiently utilizing it throughout chemotherapy remedies for most cancers (he’s in remission). He has been a practising legal professional for NORML and has additionally been a member of the Worldwide Hashish Bar Affiliation, the Nationwide Hashish Trade Affiliation, the Hemp Industries Affiliation, and the Southeast Hemp Affiliation.
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